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Mine is called “MacGyver Me This”.
You’re given 3 things. What can you do with them?
My favorite was the dozen chihuahua powered redwood raft. (Giant redwood, 12 chihuahuas, rope)
Any ambiguity is up to your discretion. For example, no mention on the amount of rope, so you’ve got a much as you want/need.
That’s 14 things at minimum though, I feel like that should disqualify it.
Every time someone refers to mobile data as “wifi” I die a little inside. I understand that the difference is unnoticeable for most people, but it pains me.
Same with Wi-Fi being used to refer to Internet access in general. I basically lived on the phone with our ISP’s tech support for two days and one tech person even told me they needed to “reset our modem so they could get the WiFi flowing to our house again”. I died a little inside.
Would’ve been real hard for me to not hang up the phone. And I’m not as tech literate as half the nerds on Lemmy, but I know enough to know when they’re giving me wrong answers. Shit is frustrating.
I guess they could have been trying to dumb it down to make it easier for the customer to understand.
Well it’s not like Big They made it particularly clear with the naming scheme.
“Wi-Fi” is an entirely non-descriptive name, it’s supposed to be “like Hi-Fi, but with a W for Wireless.” It doesn’t indicate what it does at all. The typical unwashed mass just wants to know what button to push in iOS to make it get on Instagram. Wi-Fi is synonymous with internet access in their minds; iPhones and iPads don’t have Ethernet sockets, and they’ve got no use for local traffic because their Apple products are thousand dollar Tiktok appliances.
So yeah, “Wi-Fi” means “internet access” to more people than it means “IEEE 802.11”
technical terms mean what they mean rather than being defined by the average usage like average terms because without this we can’t have useful discussions
It’s wireless fireless, duhhhhh.
Last time they said something like this to me, I pointed out that I had WiFi disabled other piece of crap router.
I knew what he meant but had no problem being literal. Tech stuff s definitely an area where details matter
I’ve never heard someone say that and I hope I never will
Man this sounds therapeutic after today.
When my wife and I were dating, she told me about a road trip game.
When you see a car, you put the word “anal” in front of it. That’s it. That’s the whole game.
Anal Expedition: sounds fun!
Anal Odyssey: sounds harrowing!
Anal Golf: I wonder how that’s played?
I’ve heard of solar and lunar, but what’s an Anal Eclipse?
Anal Sonata: I can hear it in my head right now.
That’s not even scratching the surface. The possibilities are endless.
Adam Carolla used to do a bit called “what can’t Adam complain about” that was essentially this—deliberately making the topic (typically suggested by a fan) something people/he is known to like (e.g. free parking) was the best, imo.
This isn’t a game in my house. It’s just bringing up the current news.
I can only imagine playing that with David Mitchell.
Holy shit, he would be the Hendrix of this game.
And I’ll tell you another thing!
That’s easily half of the Unbelievable Truth anyways
oh yeah we play that constantly, but it isn’t fun to anyone.
Lemmy plays it every day. It’s about Windows or Trump, and that’s it.
I play this game with myself every single day on my drive home from work. Someday I’m going to die, and someone is going to pull the SD card out of my dash cam and hear me ranting about how Reki’s attempt to earn salvation was inherently selfish as she was only going it to stop being sinbound, but in the end that selfishness didn’t matter because she was actually helping people. Even if she only helped Rakka cope with her sinboundedness in an attempt to save herself, she still helped Rakka. And ultimately that did lead to her salvation, as Rakka was only able to help save Reki because Reki helped save Rakka—oh hey, I’m home
I think people make livings by recording their in-car rants and posting them to socials. Maybe side gig?
It really helps if you’re either super hot, or have an exotic accent; ideally both. Not sure about OP’s standing on this.
Every OP is exotic to someone. Yah gotta choose your audience
Members of an uncontacted African tribe?
Sure, you can be the first streamer targeting them. Your viewer count might be a little low ……
I think that works for everything gestures to marketing.
You what really pisses me off, when certain people in the Linux community talk about “optimization” and “bloat”.
No you’re not gonna notice the twenty extra megabytes in ram usage by using another init system, no you’re gonna notice the 3% improvement for certain games that custom kernel might theoretically bring, no by using hyprland you’re not even saving that much resources, none of that really makes a difference.
Tbh you could probably gain more performance by setting the ram speeds higher in the bios, experimenting with overclocking (if theres enough thermal headroom), or upgrading some component (like an older ssd or ram). Or alternatively changing settings in the games you play. Or even a step further (this idea will shock some people), maybe don’t focus on numbers and just enjoy what you have. If its good enough than its good enough, if its not than tweaking it won’t make it good enough.
Mucking about with your ram speed and overclocking can decrease both stability, stability under load, and longevity when people are keeping computers longer than ever. It’s poor advice. Insofar as using a different init, distro, window manager, kernel. Some of that is an aesthetic choice and some a function of workflow. To some degree people just enjoy fiddling with stuff and understanding it.
You know what I notice? My journal app takes almost a gigabyte because it’s based on Electron.
Solution: use vim and save everything to a txt file
You know what I notice? How little hardware I can get something to run on.
Oh really? Didn’t someone in the Linux community notice a backdoor in the code because it delayed the startup by something like 200ms?
It’s not surprising that when a tool that usually works immediately suddenly starts freezing for quarter of a second every time you use it, that you notice it.
There’s a big difference between caring about whether a given game runs at 130FPS or 140FPS and noticing a new quarter second delay in database queries on your test db ar work. That quarter second per queey delay is going to stack up very quickly across the thousands or even millions of queries made in a day in a production database
I tried using a pie zero as a PC for a little bit. Maybe it’ll be fun to try that again and really optimize it
Afaik that can bearly run Linux (just a stripped down version of the kernel, forget about running a WM)
The Pi Zero has about the same specs as a Pi 1A+ did, just on a smaller circuit board. It…can run Raspberry Pi’s Pixel desktop, though it was a bit more usable back when they just shipped LMDE. Last time I tried it took about 20 minutes to boot to a desktop.
I had to use a Pi 1B as my main desktop for a few months because Dell can’t fix a laptop to save their lives. “Can this run LibreOffice” is an amazing question to be forced to ask.
I was gonna ask if it can run neovim with lazyvim, I don’t expect it to run a desktop especially a modern desktop. Theoretically I suppose it might be able to run i3 but that might be pushing it.
I wonder if someone like Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux could make it usable? I’ve seen both run usably on 1990s PC hardware.
That’s the fun part
I wonder if it can run doom :3
(It probably can)
I’ve only ever used my zero as a mail server, but the pi 3 did a bang up job of being my daily driver for a few years.
I can’t believe people just go around making up games on the fly. Like who thought this was a good idea?! There’s no way you’ve possibly playtested the rules to ensure everything is balanced. Without corporate oversight and a solid profit motive there is no way some “friends” in a “car” could make a successful game. The premise is just absurd.
And then to think you could go around sharing your dumb “game” freely on the internet in forums and such?
Don’t even get me started…
All games are made up
And the points don’t matter 🥰
Made up? Sure. Made up on the fly? Absolutely not, learn some basic goddamn planning skills and actually figure your game out properly. People just going with the first idea that slobbers out of their malfunctioning brains and giving it no further thought is how we end up with money for landing on Free Parking in Monopoly and the very same people complaining that Monopoly takes too long. You put in a house rule that makes the game take longer. “Oh this food is too spicy for me. I don’t like it. Can you pass me the hot sauce so I can add some more please?”
Wooosh!
homes did it backwards.
That was the joke going over your head
Oh shit, what?
Best anti-woosh I’ve ever had the pleasure of witnessing
As an autistic person, this just sounds like being autistic.
It is crucial for both your mental and emotional wellbeing and mine that you absolutely refrain from getting me started
I can’t even begin to get started, that’s how don’t get me started I am
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Now do one on twinkies!
If this website is negatively impacting your quality of life you should stop using it.
That’s just your asperger’s flaring up.
Han solo didn’t “shoot first”, he was the only one who shot, period.
Greedo didn’t shoot the wall (and miss a 6ft target sitting 2ft away), that was added (poorly) many years later for a special edition.
They changed the movie because in the interim years, George Lucas was feeling like it made Han Solo look less “noble” and more scoundrel-like.
Han Solo is supposed to be a scoundrel, he’s a damn smuggler. The bar they meet him in is described as “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”.
George Lucas has an incredible talent for fucking up the intent of the author in a story that HE’S THE AUTHOR OF, it would be very funny if it weren’t so annoying.
And even taken all that aside, he shot someone that pointed a gun at him and basically said “I am going to shoot you now”. Clearly Han is in the right here for defending himself.
And the guy he worked for previously was described as a “vile gangster” two movies later.
TBF, Han was a smuggler around the time of ANH, but he got there by running drugs for Jabba’s auntie for years… Han Solo was a plug first, and don’t even get me started on the Chewie/Scooby thread.
If anything, Han shooting and being a “scoundrel” adds even gravitas to his change of heart near the end.
When I posted this I had no idea we’d get anything THIS controversial. Yowzers
Han Solo IS a scoundrel
The class in Galaxies based on him is literally called “Scoundrel”.
Rubberneck Han isn’t real. Rubberneck Han can’t hurt you.
Greedo was pointing a gun at him and talking about claiming his bounty. How exactly was he going to go about that without shooting Han?
So yes, Han shot first, as in, shot before Greedo could, which he was certainly intending to do.
The aliens in Signs are idiots for invading a planet that’s 70% water. And if they landed in a cornfield in rural PA in the middle of summer the humidity would have killed them instantly.
And what’s worse is Shyamalan lives in PA and should know this.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t also naked.
Also, they have interstellar travel but need to use crop circles to communicate. I know that’s just part of the premise but it’s still stupid.
But not nearly as stupid as flying all the way here and trying win a land war completely unarmed. If your battle plan can be beaten by a baseball bat and asthma, you should maybe rethink your invasion.
I think the movie would work better if the aliens were just messing with this one family on a farm, like they’re a scout force.
But it’s like humans trying to invade Mars in their birthday suits, just assuming the planet isn’t toxic and uninhabitable.
Like, what did the invasion look like in the tropics, where it rains just about every day? Did they get out of their ships and just start sizzling?
Who says they were the aliens?
Man, the aliens sat it out in their dry ass ship and sent a crop of vat grown drones to go harvest all the organs they wanted on a world covered in H2O.
The drones aren’t bright, but the get the job done. They only last 30 hours or so before they start decomposing, so it doesn’t matter if they get locked in a pantry or clubed with a bat.
You think a starfaring species would come all the way to Sol 3, and not being a bio organic drone to go out and brave the hazards of an acid covered water world hell planet?
Shit. Don’t get me fucking started on how many people miss the point of the aliens in fucking Signs.
If there was this much world building I’d probably like it more.
But the only rules they established for the aliens are poison gas and water dissolving.
Actually, The only world building they did firmly establish was that the aliens did not matter…
For all the audience needs to know, they used the gas to transfer their consciousness into a new host, and they do this everytime they visit a new biosphere.
But no, you fucking de-cloak early during one childrens birthday party in South America and your ass is a joke, you get fucking anthropomorphized for the next 20 years…
I disagree. If water is essential for their spaceflight, IE fuel, reaction mass, ect then it’s fine that they would invade.
Humans have invaded the Sahara desert, which is hot enough to kill, the arctic and Antarctic which is cold enough to kill, the submarine realm which can crush, freeze and drown us, and even the moon, which is hollow and full of dangerous reptillians.
We go to extremely dangerous places to fulfill our need for resources and territorial ambition
Yes but they wouldn’t show up bare-ass nekkid on a planet full of water if they knew it dissolved ‘em!
I almost wonder if it’s like Mt Everest climbers who climb without oxygen tanks, they do it more to prove that they can than for any rational reason
Alien invasion is always stupid. Interstellar travel uses so much energy, it can power a civilisation for a year, and that’s for just below light speed from our nearest star. Their tech level would be high enough to just scoop up whatever resource they want from astroids, if not ourright skimming from gas giants or stars. Oh, you need genetic material? Musquito drones would do the job. I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.
I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.
And nerf themselves to make it better sport. Like us hunting with a bow and arrows instead of a drone strike.
The only alien invasion scenario that makes sense is one where the aliens are so advanced they don’t even notice us.
I mean, it’s not completely unrealistic that some alien race builds a generation ship, points it at Sol 3 because it has a strong magnetosphere, conditions for liquid water and a fairly oxygen rich atmosphere then after their 10,000 year journey they discover a race that’s just beginning to figure out space flight on the planet previously observed to lack any industrial capabilities. Honestly that would make for a good film, and I’m sure there’s science fiction books based on that idea already (Douglas Adams wasn’t far off from that with the Galgafrinchians too, only they arrived about 20,000 years before our present day and supplanted neanderthals as the dominant hominid race on Earth)
Kinda like we don’t hesitate to step on grass.
I like the holy water fan theory. They were not aliens but demons and all of the glasses of water were blessed when Mel Gibson regained his faith
Which would work if the aliens were only attacking his farm and not the entire planet.
You never see spaceships and you only see how a single creature is defeated. The radio says the war turned around in the holy lands, which aren’t overflowing with water everywhere.
It’s faith that defeats them, not water.
On the radio it mentioned that people had discovered an old technique to fight them, there are other priests on earth
And Toto has Africa pretty well covered.
I needed that chuckle.
Clearly Mel Gibson blessed all of that water, too. Is there anything that guy can’t do with his faith? (Besides make a watchable movie?)
I thought that was the actual reason and not just a fan theory?
“The characters in that movie called them aliens, but it was never explicitly demonstrated what they were or why they were on earth. People are much more accepting of aliens these days, and the idea was that if demons appeared among us, they would be perceived as aliens.”
If it had been talking about demons at all during the movie this would eliminate my major problem with the movie.
There just weren’t enough rules about the universe demonstrated to the viewer to know what’s going on.
And I know Shyamalan is capable of this because he did such a good job with this in The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.
Lol I actually grew up near where the movie took place and now I feel stupid for never thinking about the humidity factor. Summer in PA is underestimated by those who think “it’s the northeastern US, how bad can it get?”. For those of you who don’t know, most summer days you can see the humidity and you’re drenched in sweat about 2 minutes after you exit a cool shower.
In the mountains it’s not too bad but Chester country might as well be Leesburg in July.
Captain Carter said the same thing
@LadyButterfly This is basically just me every day with my students but they don’t seem to enjoy it nearly as much as I do. Weird.
